[TO TRW EDITOR or TIM "SrmoTAToR." J SIR,—The correspondence raised
by the letter of "E. M. L." is of interest to many both north and south of the Tweed. In more than one congregation amongst us difficulties have arisen before now through the admission of the unconfirmed to Holy Communion. In the little book written by Dr. Smith, Chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester, on "The Legal Position of the Clergy," he says :— "It would not be expedient in the present day for an incumbent to refuse the Communion to persons merely because they came from outside his parish. Nor can he lawfully refuse it to a person who occasionally attends, or even communicates, in a dissenting place of worship. And a clergyman who admits them [the unconfirmed] in the absence of any direction of the Bishop to the contrary, may be acting in a wise and Christian manner."
Would not a short form of service for the private confirma- tion of those of riper years get over the difficulty P—I am, Sir, M. A.
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